Bringing Back the Groove

Safire | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 21, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Globe Star Records/Ka
• ASIN: B00005N6O2
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,272 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't Break My Heart (Tony Moran's 2002 Anthem Mix)

2. I'm Feeling It Too

3. Can You Stand The Rain (featuring Cynthia)

4. Let Me Be The One (Choco's Old School Mix)

5. Gonna Make It (HashBoy Mix)

6. Love Is On Her Mind (TransAtlantic Mix)

7. Eyes Of A Stranger

8. Boy I've Been Tolf (DJ Baron Lopez Mix)

9. Thinking Of You (Ricky Gonzalez Salsa Mix)

10. Don't Break My Heart (Kenny Diaz Booty Shaker Mix)

11. Some Things Never Change (featuring Tony Moran)

12. You Said You Loved Me (Fever Mix)

13. Boy I've Been Told

14. Thinking Of You

15. Gonna Make It

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Return of a Latin Diva, January 25, 2002

By 

Luis Hernandez (New York, New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bringing Back the Groove (Audio CD)

If there is one name synonymous with the freestyle movement of the 1980s, that name would be Safire. Born Wilma Cosme to Puerto Rican parents in New York City, Safire was one of the first Latinas to really make a mark in popular club music due to her style and vocals. However, when times change, so do taste, and Safire almost disappeared off the map when the freestyle movement started to fizzle in the early 1990s.

"Bringing Back the Groove" is Safire's first English-language album in more than a decade. After briefly experimenting with Salsa music during most of the 1990s (like many freestyle divas of past such as Brenda K. Starr and India) Safire released this album which features a various versions of several of her hits. While I can't classify this album as having original material, it is the only album out on the market that contains Safire's English-language tracks.

"Thinking of You," a slow, yet beautiful love song, "Boy I've Been Told" (written by salsa/pop sensation Marc Anthony), and "Gonna Make It," are all freestyle anthems not only covered on this compilation in their original versions, but also in several remixed versions. My favorite versions are this album include Ricky Gonzalez's Salsa Mix of "Thinking Of You," and Choco's Old School Mix of another Safire hit, "Let Me Be The One." The first version captures Safire's hit song with a flavorful, salsa beat that will appeal to many of her Latin fans, which the latter sounds like it was remixed in today's club styles to attract a new legion of fans.

This album is a must have for any who loves freestyle! The memories it brought of me growing up in New York City are priceless and can never be relived. However, thanks to this compilation, I am finally able to listen to what popular music should sound, especially in this age of boy band drones and rivaling teen pop divas. Safire, like Lisa Lisa, Brenda K. Starr, Corina, and other Latin divas of the past, is a legend, and thanks to this album, this album will allow future generations of music lovers to rediscover a major music movement that blended Latin rhythms with English lyrics.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She Bangs, She Bangs, November 18, 2001

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Jose Ayala (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bringing Back the Groove (Audio CD)

Its About time. This whole album bangs SAFIRE is great. Am glad you did bring it back all the way back....... 5 Stars

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NYC LATIN CLASSIC FREESTYLE!!!!!, February 13, 2002

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MC - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bringing Back the Groove (Audio CD)

THIS IS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE HUNT FOR 80'S DANCE WITH A LATIN TWIST. SAFIRE IS GREAT, THE BEATS ARE SO RAW ESPECIALLY "DONT BREAK MY HEART" REMIXED BY TONY MORAN, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW WHO TONY MORAN IS?, HE IS ONE OF THE "ORIGINAL LATIN RASCALS", THE WORLD FAMOUS DJ CREW FROM NYC IN THE MID TO EARLY 80'S(98.7 KISS FM). THERE WERE MANY GREAT GROUPS AND ARTIST THAT EMERGED WITH THE NEW FREESTYLE SOUND IN THE MID 80'S BUT SAFIRE REMAINED AT THE TOP WITH HITS LIKE "BOY I'VE BEEN TOLD", "GONNA MAKE IT", "DONT BREAK MY HEART", AND MANY MORE. MANY OF SAFIRE'S JAMS WERE MIXED ON CHICAGO'S OWN WBMX 102.7 BACK IN THE 80'S, AND WERE MOSTLY PUMPED IN THE DISCOS. THIS IS GREAT CD TO PURCHASE FOR THE FREESTYLE COLLECTION!